Tariq Aziz says West misjudged Saddam Hussein

Former Iraqi deputy PM Tariq Aziz has staunchly defended Saddam Hussein in an interview with The Guardian newspaper.

Interviewed by the UK daily in his Iraq prison cell, Aziz said the West was wrong about the former Iraqi president.

In his first interview since he was captured shortly after the fall of Baghdad more than seven years ago, Aziz said that pulling out US combat troops before the country was stable would be lethal for Iraq....